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| Stage Trees | ||
| Genetically modified trees with solid fuel rocket cores. |
| Far out across the plain there was fire. A stage tree rose rapidly into the black sky, minus its roots and flower, the wooden flanges at its base holding it in precarious aerodynamic stability. A white rope of smoke followed it up. When the smoke cut off, the tree became invisible... until, much higher, there was a puff of white cloud like a flak burst. Now the seeds would be spreading across the sky...
Richard Mann smiled. Wonderful, how the stage trees had adapted to the loss of their masters. The Slavers had raised them on wide plantations, using the solid fuel rocket cores inside the living bark to lift their ships from places where a fusion drive would have done damage. But the trees used the rockets for reproduction, to scatter their seeds further than any plant before them. |
| Technovelgy from A Relic of the Empire,
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